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While leafing through a big dictionary i own, looking for a dodgy word quite possibly made up by one of my lecturers today, i stumbled past the entry for 'computer game'. After confirming that another slice of the senile fool's vocabulary fails to make it into the dictionary and qualify as a real word, i thought i'd have a look.
"Computer game n. any of various games, recorded on cassette for use..."
Hmm, still with cassettes mr collins? Check the publication date, 1992. Oh well, lets see what they have for 'video game'...
"Video game n. any of various games that can be played by using an electronic control to move points of light or graphical symbols on the screen of a visual display unit."
Oh dear. Was that definitely 1992? Yes?
Looking for more total tosh in my big rubbish dictionary, i checked out the back sleeve.
"Contains the very latest new words..."
Making it in there, the likes of ram raid, splatter movie and kvetch (us slang, to complain a lot. there you go, you learn something you didn't want to... em, something new every day). Ah, they seem so proud of their 'very latset new words'.
Then, the luckiest comedy find of my dictionary-holding life.
In Ronald G Hardie's (named and shamed!) 'English in use today' section,
"Definitely is often used in place of yes. This is not advisable in careful speech as it can become a mannerism and it devalues the word for other users."
There you have it. Next time you plan on using the word 'definitely', you'd just better stop and think about everyone else for a change. You're devaluing the word for them, you're devaluing the word for me, but most of all, you're devaluing the word for yourself.
What a pile of shirr... shirt... shirty... yes, it's in there.
"Computer game n. any of various games, recorded on cassette for use..."
Hmm, still with cassettes mr collins? Check the publication date, 1992. Oh well, lets see what they have for 'video game'...
"Video game n. any of various games that can be played by using an electronic control to move points of light or graphical symbols on the screen of a visual display unit."
Oh dear. Was that definitely 1992? Yes?
Looking for more total tosh in my big rubbish dictionary, i checked out the back sleeve.
"Contains the very latest new words..."
Making it in there, the likes of ram raid, splatter movie and kvetch (us slang, to complain a lot. there you go, you learn something you didn't want to... em, something new every day). Ah, they seem so proud of their 'very latset new words'.
Then, the luckiest comedy find of my dictionary-holding life.
In Ronald G Hardie's (named and shamed!) 'English in use today' section,
"Definitely is often used in place of yes. This is not advisable in careful speech as it can become a mannerism and it devalues the word for other users."
There you have it. Next time you plan on using the word 'definitely', you'd just better stop and think about everyone else for a change. You're devaluing the word for them, you're devaluing the word for me, but most of all, you're devaluing the word for yourself.
What a pile of shirr... shirt... shirty... yes, it's in there.
From the Cambridge International Dictionary of English:
Computer game: "A computer game is a game which is played on a computer, in which the pictures that appear on the screen are controlled by pressing keys or moving a joystick."
Video game: "A video game is a game in which the player controls moving pictures on a screen by pressing buttons."
Conclusions: People in acadaemia shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the gaming industry, for obvious reasons.
Just to clear this up, from the FM Dictionary of Gaming:
Computer game: Diablo II
Video game: Grand Theft Auto 3
There, that sums it up nicely I think...
Computer game: "A computer game is a game which is played on a computer, in which the pictures that appear on the screen are controlled by pressing keys or moving a joystick."
Video game: "A video game is a game in which the player controls moving pictures on a screen by pressing buttons."
Conclusions: People in acadaemia shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the gaming industry, for obvious reasons.
Just to clear this up, from the FM Dictionary of Gaming:
Computer game: Diablo II
Video game: Grand Theft Auto 3
There, that sums it up nicely I think...
While leafing through a big dictionary i own, looking for a dodgy word quite possibly made up by one of my lecturers today, i stumbled past the entry for 'computer game'. After confirming that another slice of the senile fool's vocabulary fails to make it into the dictionary and qualify as a real word, i thought i'd have a look.
"Computer game n. any of various games, recorded on cassette for use..."
Hmm, still with cassettes mr collins? Check the publication date, 1992. Oh well, lets see what they have for 'video game'...
"Video game n. any of various games that can be played by using an electronic control to move points of light or graphical symbols on the screen of a visual display unit."
Oh dear. Was that definitely 1992? Yes?
Looking for more total tosh in my big rubbish dictionary, i checked out the back sleeve.
"Contains the very latest new words..."
Making it in there, the likes of ram raid, splatter movie and kvetch (us slang, to complain a lot. there you go, you learn something you didn't want to... em, something new every day). Ah, they seem so proud of their 'very latset new words'.
Then, the luckiest comedy find of my dictionary-holding life.
In Ronald G Hardie's (named and shamed!) 'English in use today' section,
"Definitely is often used in place of yes. This is not advisable in careful speech as it can become a mannerism and it devalues the word for other users."
There you have it. Next time you plan on using the word 'definitely', you'd just better stop and think about everyone else for a change. You're devaluing the word for them, you're devaluing the word for me, but most of all, you're devaluing the word for yourself.
What a pile of shirr... shirt... shirty... yes, it's in there.
"Computer game n. any of various games, recorded on cassette for use..."
Hmm, still with cassettes mr collins? Check the publication date, 1992. Oh well, lets see what they have for 'video game'...
"Video game n. any of various games that can be played by using an electronic control to move points of light or graphical symbols on the screen of a visual display unit."
Oh dear. Was that definitely 1992? Yes?
Looking for more total tosh in my big rubbish dictionary, i checked out the back sleeve.
"Contains the very latest new words..."
Making it in there, the likes of ram raid, splatter movie and kvetch (us slang, to complain a lot. there you go, you learn something you didn't want to... em, something new every day). Ah, they seem so proud of their 'very latset new words'.
Then, the luckiest comedy find of my dictionary-holding life.
In Ronald G Hardie's (named and shamed!) 'English in use today' section,
"Definitely is often used in place of yes. This is not advisable in careful speech as it can become a mannerism and it devalues the word for other users."
There you have it. Next time you plan on using the word 'definitely', you'd just better stop and think about everyone else for a change. You're devaluing the word for them, you're devaluing the word for me, but most of all, you're devaluing the word for yourself.
What a pile of shirr... shirt... shirty... yes, it's in there.